Sunday, July 7, 2013

MGMT coming to The Fillmore Auditorium

Live Nation is pleased to announce that MGMT will performat The Fillmore Auditorium on Friday, September 6.Special Guest TBA will open the show.Show time is 9:00 PM.

Doors open at 8:00 PM

Cosmic
forces were at work when MGMT's co-founders, Andrew VanWyngarden and
Ben Goldwasser met over ten years ago at Wesleyan University. Drawn
together by a mutual love of mystic paganism, the duo signed to Columbia
Records in the eve of 2006. On a mission to sprinkle the music industry
with weirdness and unpredictability the band delivered their debut
album "Oracular Spectacular" in 2008. The record garnered the band three
Grammy nominations, along with numerous accolades across the globe,
including landing at #18 on Rolling Stone magazine's Top 100 albums of
the decade.

2010's "Congratulations" was conceived even before
"Oracular Spectacular’s release! The "musically adventurous" eclectic
mixture of tracks may have sounded a little confusing to some, but
that's only because MGMT's unconventional pop structures reflect the
chaotic vibrations of the world -- and who can realistically make sense
of that? "Congratulations" debuted at #2 on the US Billboard 200 and #4
in the UK, going on to become one of the most talked about albums of the
past decade.

Performing live as a five piece, MGMT continue to
entertain through multiple TV appearances (including covering Pink
Floyd's "Lucifer Sam" on Jimmy Fallon while decked out in hardened
fisherman's gear), a steady stream of music festival performances around
the world, curating the latest edition of the "Late Night Tales" music
compilation, and remaining precocious and curious under-30 wunderkind.
Via their recorded music medium, the endlessly experimental and
spontaneous duo have stayed true to their precarious nature.

In
November 2011, MGMT performed two nights at the Guggenheim Museum in New
York City, creating a unique musical performance to coincide with the
opening of Maurizio Cattelan's career retrospective All -- an
installation of over 100 art pieces dangling from the museum's ceiling
through its legendary inner spiral space.

Last year MGMT
conquered South America with their live show and in September Ben and
Andrew performed as a two-piece for the first time in a decade, as part
of the legendary Joshua Light Show. Listening in on the universe's
stream of consciousness for inspiration, the duo are currently
completing the third MGMT album due for an early summer release. As a
band that exists in its own space and time, and is constantly defying
expectation, there is no saying what magical gifts MGMT will bestow.